Something does not compute, up until today I have had nothing but fantastic quality from my Sony NEX-VG10 and I put that down to filming progressive till you read the Electronic manual and it clearly tells you that this camcorder films 1920 x 1080 50i and todays shots were indeed 1080 50i because they had the famous jaggies you only get with interlaced footage.

Yesterday (Friday) however my footage was jaggie free and looked progressive…now the only clue we get here is Sony’s strange reference to 720p in the AVCHD part of the manual. Why the need to mention 720p if the equipment does not record in 720p or does it ?

As yet I cannot account for my two distinctive qualities…one with and one without jaggies. I will update this post if I get an answer to this puzzle.

UPDATE…Note that like the SLD cameras, the 60 / 50i video is created from 30 / 25p sensor output.

FURTHER UPDATE SOLVED…It seems what I am seeing is MOIRE due to the subject matter. I was not aware until I filmed roof tops over Edinburgh but this camera suffers from moire as can be clearly demonstrated on roof slates.

Cheers for the info. Think the moire is caused by the fact the sensor is 14 megapixels for the stills function, can’t see that function being used a lot either. Shame really. I’m sure this range of cams will get better with time, but for now it’s not a DSLR killer.